Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-06-24
o. F. RoHRER

Make the bluest skies above.
o. F. RoHRER.
If you are about to plant roses be
careful to dig the soil deep and thor
oughly soft before putting them in;
then give them thorough soaking
so that the ground IS saturated for a
foot deep. Then cover with dry earth
to keep the ground from packing in
the hot sun. It is best to do your
planting at night, in order to give the
plants the long, cool hours in which to
revive. The same rule holds good in
watering; always, if possible water at
night, as when done in the daytime
the sun packs the earth around the
plants, often so hard as to make the
task of softening it no small one. Be-
side this, If the plant is small, in try
ing to break up the baked surface the
roots are very often disturbed, retard-
ing the growth, if not killing the plant.
A great many hold, too, that the chill
of the cold water on the plant, which
is heated by the sun, has damaging
effect.
The curing and packing of French
prunes is destined to become in the
near future, one of the most profitable
branches Of the fruit industry and al
though it as yet in its infancy, with
the United States and Canada for a
market, there is little danger Of the
business being overdone. It is estima-
ted that the consumption of dried
prunes in the United States and Can
ada annually is about 10000, ,O0(
pounds.
OF hay this country of boundles'
pastures and productive meadows i'm
ported in 1876 to the value of abou
100000 which had risen by 1886 to 1
gross total of 81, ,5l7,S40. In the sam,
general line is the fact that in 1871
the people of this country were oblise'
to send abroad for butter and chees
valued at S95S,00O In 1881 the
ate $l,324, 900 worth and in 1885 81
$4,000 was paid to the foreign dairy
men.
In the importations Of wool som
remarkable fluctuations are seen. Fe
instance, in 1876 the foreign-bred shee
contributed their feeces to the value {
$S,247,6l7 to the American woole
mills. BY 1880 the total SO sent her
aggregated the enormous value of 81;
727, $50, but the American sheep seem
to have taken fresh grip soon there
after, and the importations fell off
$3,800,000 in 1885.
OF the 127 100000 bushels of whea
imported into Great Britain last yea
three-fths, or - 1000, 900 bushels, cam
from the United States, 100000
bushels from India, I, 100000 frol
Russia, an equal quantity from Au
tria and Germany together, 7,408,O0
bushels from Canada, g. 1000 fro
Chill, and ., 100000 bushels from a
other countries.
A general superintendent who b
comes personally and thoroughly a
quainted with the territory and wor
ing force of Conference of which
has charge is hundred fold more col
petent to preside at the Conference Sc
sion with satisfaction both to himst
and body than if he comes a strang
10 nearly all Michigan Advocate.
The growing frequency with viii
the thrifty American wife or daught
demands that she shall have 81
dress is evidenced by the fact that
1876 the importations of the produ
of the repulsive mulberry eating VOL
amounted to S., 100000, but then
forward grew in size to 10000, 600
1881 and S14,000,000 in 1883, but f
off to Sl2, 400,000in 1885.
Supt J. NJ. Buckley says the Mort
ern Pacific has reports from Easte
Washington representing the yield
wheat there this season at $50, 900
100000 tons.
Prune raisiug says Baker City
per, could le made profitable on
lands adjacent to Ontario and Va
Malheur county.
Thirty bushels to the acre is vi
the farmers are guessing as the a'
age wheat yield of Morrow coun
Oregon.
Carelessness in leaving farm ]
chinery unsheltered is a great sou
of loss to many farmers.